KeghartBy Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto, 4 February 2026
You may call him liar, cheat, crook, loudmouth, lout, arrogant, ignorant, amoral, bombastic, egotist, racist, misogynist, spoiled, overbearing, cruel, cowardly, obscene, inane, and stupid Caligula or Nero, but it would be unfair to call the Orange Balloon floating in Casablanca a draft dodger. While the 46 and 48 President of the United States is a certified draft dodger, it would be unfair to call him that.
The draft dodger accusation hit the airwaves when the Loudmouth Lout questioned the bravery of non-American NATO forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere where NATO armies had flexed their muscles to impose Western imperium. Even the much-married, ageing rocker Rod Stewart got into the act and called him “draft dodger.” Yes, the 46, 48 President of the United States is a draft dodger, but why pick on the inflated boyo who emits noxious gases when pressed by journalists?
There is an ultra-secret U.S. diktat which says avoiding military service is mandatory for presidential candidates, unless they have a psychological reason to volunteer to serve their country.
Consider President Richard M. Nixon and those who came after him.
Richard Nixon did not serve in the military
Ronald Reagan did not serve in the military
Bomber pilot George H. W. Bush saw token action in WWII
Bill Clinton did not serve in the military
George W. Bush did not serve in the military
Barack Obama did not serve in the military
Joe Biden didn’t serve in the military.
Earlier in the 20th century, five presidents (Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Delano Roosevelt) didn’t serve in the military.
Rod Stewart, etc. should be circumspect when they pick on Mr. Hot Air and call him unpleasant names. The man has the heart of a lion as testified by the way he handles obnoxious journalists in his ornately —decorated Offal Office.
There is a tradition going back to Sumerian-Aztec civilizations which exempts the elite from military service. It explains why so many U.S. presidents have avoided the military while their inferiors have sacrificed their lives for them. The simple-minded patriot would do a double take if he learns the chief commander of the army can’t shoot a Derringer if his life depended on it.
According to the above tradition, underground operatives bivouacked in U.S. hospitals check the DNA of every newborn male. They look for the extremely rare DNA (KOW-RD1) in males. Only people bearing that DNA are allowed to become president. These rare DNA bearers are shepherded by wise men–such as the late and much-lamented Dr. No (no relation to the lugubrious Dr. Oz, pusher of ersatz medicines) whose Island paradise was acquired by Stephen Epstein and turned into a sex pit. It is no accident that the islet is in the Virgin Islands.
And who are some of the current wise men who give wings to the Orange Man? They are funereal and slow-witted Scott Bessent of the commerce desk, alcoholic-cantankerous born-again Peter Hegseth (Minister of Imperial Invasions), Howard (“The Most Hated Man on Wall Street”) Lutnick, and Steve (“The Most Hated Man in the United States”) Miller.
Scott (Undertaker) Bessent has not served in the military.
Howard (Hyena) Lutnick has not served in the military.
Steve (Mad Dog) Miller has not served in the military.
Perhaps the Orange Balloon should call his cabinet Cowards Anonymous.
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8 comments
Hilarious as always.
He could be an excellent screenwriter for an American theatre or movie company.
Bravo, yet again, Jirair, though I shall insist on calling the diseased, ignorant felon Trump a draft dodger, especially as he deliberately concocted a false story about bone spurs in his foot, though, as usual, the mendacious idiot couldn’t remember which foot.
Hilarious and enjoyable read Jerry.
Hilarious, humorous, sarcastic but not denigrating.
A military site I read lists George W. as the last president to have served the armed forces. It said, “Like his father, he was a pilot and joined the Air National Guard in 1968.” He was a co-pilot on the aircraft that landed on a USS for him to prematurely announce “mission accomplished”.
Hilarious, indeed it is!
However, by my count, at least three presidents have served in the military who became presidents in the latter half of the 20th century, namely: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford.
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True, but the article didn’t say Kennedy, Johnson, and Ford had not served in the military,
There’s controversy about George W. Bush’s military service.
1. He did not see action
2. He took so long to graduate that he used up the four-year requirement of service
3. He didn’t meet training attendance requirements
4. Eventually, he did not meet the physical requirements to qualify as a pilot.
When someone says he was a pilot in the war, his interlocutor would naturally assume he saw action.
I am a 70 y/o Armenian man, mother and father both Armenian, also grandfather and grandmother both Armenians who immigrated to the US from Turkey. I started at this age to ask myself… What is the DNA of an Armenian man born in the US? What I have read enlightens me as to who really I am.